We’re excited to unveil the result of a months-long partnership with the Angular team. This partnership has been very productive and rewarding experience for us, and as part of this collaboration, we’re happy to announce that Angular 2 will now be built with TypeScript. We’re looking forward to seeing what people will be able to… Read more

Today we’re excited to announce the final release of TypeScript 2.0! TypeScript 2.0 has been a great journey for the team, with several contributions from the community and partners along the way. It brings several new features that enhance developer productivity, advances TypeScript’s alignment with ECMAScript’s evolution, provides wide support for JavaScript libraries and tools,… Read more

Declaration files (.d.ts files) are a fundamental part of using existing JavaScript libraries in TypeScript, but getting them has always been a place where we’ve known there was room for improvement. As we get closer to TypeScript 2.0, we’re very excited to show off a sneak peak of our plan to simplify things. Getting type… Read more

Today we’re excited to roll out our beta release of TypeScript 2.0. If you’re not familiar with TypeScript yet, you can start learning it today on our website. To get your hands on the beta, you can download TypeScript 2.0 Beta for Visual Studio 2015 (which will require VS 2015 Update 3), or just run… Read more

We spread ourselves thin, but this is the moment you’ve been awaiting – TypeScript 2.1 is here! For those who are unfamiliar, TypeScript is a language that brings you all the new features of JavaScript, along with optional static types. This gives you an editing experience that can’t be beat, along with stronger checks against… Read more

Today, we’re happy to announce the release of TypeScript 1.6. This release adds support for React/JSX, class expressions, and a rich set of new capabilities in the type system. It also provides stricter type checking for object literals. You can download TypeScript 1.6 for Visual Studio 2015, Visual Studio 2013, on npm, or as source. React/JSX Designed… Read more

We’re happy to announce the release of TypeScript 0.9.1. With this version we’ve focused on fit and finish, improving the compiler performance and rounding out the language and ASP.NET support. Improved Performance When we released 0.9.0, we introduced a re-written compiler and language service which scaled better for interactive use cases and supported many new… Read more

Today, we are thrilled to announce the release of TypeScript 1.7 along with the availability of Visual Studio 2015 Update 1. This release enables async/await by default for ECMAScript 6 (ES6) targets. It also adds support for polymorphic ‘this’ typing, proposed ECMAScript 2016 exponentiation syntax, and ES6 module targeting. For a complete change list, check… Read more

With the recent announcement of Visual Studio Code, there have been a lot of questions about how to get started writing TypeScript. In this quickstart, we’ll create a simple TypeScript project. Out of the box, Visual Studio Code supports TypeScript 1.5 beta and using either the node or Visual Studio command-line compilers. For this quickstart,… Read more

Today we’re happy to announce TypeScript 1.4. With TypeScript 1.4, we’ve continued to build new features that help you work with more JavaScript patterns, create richer typings, and use new ES6 features. You can try these improvements out as part of Visual Studio 2015 CTP5, Visual Studio 2013, NPM, and as source. Type System Improvements… Read more